Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-16
NEBRASKA,

better.
Loup City has voted bonds for water
works.
Sheridan covnty levies Is mills for county
purposes.
Omaha hod carriers are on q strike for $3.50
per day.
The Hungry-Looking club is a Fremont
institution.
Chinch bugs are taking nearly all the wheat
at Bradshaw.
There will be a county seat election In
Knox county on the 10th.
The internal revenue collections In the
Omsha district for the month Of June
amounted to sls3, 367 SIS, and for the fiscal
year ended June sc, & 1893, 404. 60.
BY arrangement With the Sioux Indians
100 rode through the streets Of Chadron
yelling like devils. They had been promised
u dinner on the 4th. They were placed at the
head Of the procession. The red men painted
the town a very bright vermillion hue, bat
''no body was hurt.n
A large Sunday school picnic was held at
Fremont Thursday In the beautiful city park.
AA""y 'hN'S .'HbS PNop'N 'NAN f'NENh ~
enjoy the festivities Of the occasion. All the
Fremont schools turned out, besides large
delegations from North Bend, Hooper, Serb
ner and Arlington. The rain at 2 o'clock
brought the celebration to an abrupt close.
Andry Frost aud his nephew, Henry Frost,
were crossing a bridge spanning the ElShorn
north OF Hooper, when the structure fell
under them, precipitating shem into the cur
rent twenty feet below. Neither was b idly
ipjIrsd. The Scribner News says: The
bridge Is a new one, having been completed
but a few months, and Is another evidence OF
the many measIy impositions imDosed upon
the taxpayers of Dodge county by the hoard
o. bloated sharks that infest her capital"
ID B. Howard, of Lincoln, received the con-
tract for building the new additions to the
Norfolk asylum. The bu 'ldings to be erected
ARE two wings to the main buil ling, for
which s49 900 were appropriated; engine
house, boiler-house and laundry, a two story
brick building with stone basement, appro-
L~riation SIS 700; kitchen, bakery and chapel,
similarly constructed, appropriation $14 600;
also a large smoke stack eighty feet high, for
which $1,000 was appropriated, and a barn
costing 81 900.
Within the last few days chinch bugs have
appeared In inmense numbers In the vicinity
Of Centrai City, and 1t now looks as II they
would destroy the most Of the wheat. A
week ago a large wheat crop was ex oected,
but since that time the bugs have appeared in
almost every field, and II there is one-lhird of
an annual wheat crop 1t will do well. One
man having a farm three miles from that city
is burning up his entire wheat field, consist
ne Of thirty acres. Another ore cutbis wheat
Saturday and will use It for stock feed. The
hugs are also i~njuring corn and oats some
what, but there will still b. a large crop Of
these cereals.
An Anselmo telegram says: Jesse Over
ton was shot and killed yesterday at Ansel-
mo. 1t was reported at first that his wife did
the killing, but since a second report says
that 1t was suicide; also that the gun was
found lying across his arm with a stick
fastener to the trigger. The coronor's IN
quest was held last night, but a verdict has
not been received here yet. 1t is generally
conceded by the people acquainted with the
family that he was murdered. Already q son
of this family languishes IN the reform school
for various offences and the balance Of the
fami are Of the same stamp. Great excite
meLt prevails.
A cJ clone dropped down on Valparaiso on
the 5.h. It first struck the residence Of f. l..
4 gs4.r l., -. .o.4 ,.n-s - +An,n ltt,.,lir +,.,
ing it into kindltng wood. 1t next struck the
house of Mrs. Hays, dtmolisning II. Both
families had taken refuge In a cave and es-
caped. The next aud only other building in
the track Of the cyclone was a small stable,
which was lifted from its foundation, leaving
a span Of mules uni jlred. Great excitement
prevailed in to"n willie the cyclone was in
sight, which was not over twenty ni3ute-, as
from It's slow and wavering motion its course
ahead was very uncertain. It's track was
about two miles long and only about three or
four rods IN width.
Charles Richards was found guilty In the
| district court at Benkleman Saturday on the
charge IF numbering George McFsrlan last
February. Judge Cochran, the new Judge of
this district, was not qualified to preside by
reason OF his connection with the case before
his appointment and Judge Gasiiu presided.
Colonel Hugh Short, the celebrated criminal
lawyer Of Texas. assisted by G.. D.. Pierce and
s. J. Starbuck, appeared for the defence. w.
s. Morton and John Thompson, the talented
young county attorney, conducted the prose
cation. The evidence was straight for a case
OF murder In The first degree, but the Jury
gave a verdict in The second degree on account
OF K chard's extreme old age. Richards was
sentenced to the penitentary for life. This
was the 6iry-third trial presided over by Judge
Gasiin jn Nebraska.
Broken Bow special 6: For the last two
weeks asetiCs OF depredations have been com.
United in the country west OF here and tracers
have been put oUt, The posse succeeded in
tracking the outfit from til. Union Pacific,
about dfty miles south Of here, up TO Ansel-
mo, twenty miles northwest Of here, where
they lost track Of the thieves and came 20
Broken Bow. In the meantime the thieves
went 10 Anselmo and last night broke into
several houses, securing about s400 worth Of
goods, among which were several runs. The
Anselmo deputy gave chase this morning and
succeeded In covering them in a CANYON,
about six miles north of here. The deputies
immadjat ely sent "a msn IN inform the sheriff